Thanks for the reply...that's interesting..I find vl5.9 std works very well on my p3-600 with 256 and today with 128 although I did not push it yet..I thought vl-light would be designed for lesser..so guessed the p2 w/128 a good option and had hope for the p166..so far the p166 has only had success with dsl on 128megs with swap, I attempted deli mulinux and puppy but failed feather was a little more work so I tested dsl more completely. I think I seen somewhere about a mini vl maby that would be an option. but time allows one so will try on the p2 /128 and see what works....thanks

I managed to get the chestnut dialer included in vlstd to work and had looked for it in the repository thinking I may add it to light myself but did not know how to get it.

.it shows up in gslapt but is already installed on the machine I was useing, and the site seemed down so I did not know how to access the repository for a more direct download..

.if I did get it I was unsure if its installation is all that would be required to fuction as I needed vsuper to get the std to work plus it may have required files not in light to make it light..

was more confuseing than interesting so I thought to pass it by.

I am thankfull vl std works for dialup and do not want to make waves. I did go to the slack12 repository but got no result for chestnut..I did get a result for kppp but it appeared there are several files...thus my post..just to save others the time and complaint

adding: I see now that ppp is in etc rather than opt,,,so as you say may be I just need to install a dialer..just not sure where chestnut pack is yet..will see if I can find vwdial then, although chestnut is nicer.

Once you have the package on your system, login to a terminal as root (su), then type: "installpkg nameofpackage". It's that easy.

Hi,I'm joining this discussion to figure out if 'lagagnon's' instruction would be the answer to my question.Because of THIS I was told to try to install VL 5.9 Light. The hardware is capable to run VL 5.9 Standard, (which I have already installed on a much older computer and which I like very much).I was wondering, when VL 5.9 Light is installed, if I could upgrade the system to VL 5.9 standard?

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am I looking in all the wrong places? should I just leave it alone, play on my own? yes? no? is fine cheers

adding:hehe..well the answer is YES..although I did download chestnut from sourceforge as expected files are missing for .configure make..ifconfig I think was one..

so like I said and should have left alone is.. vl-light has no dialer..yet anyway.. so one may want to skip it if they had dialup in mind

on a positive note things seem to work otherwise on this minimal spec although I would default fluxbox, add wmdrawer with mount/umounts etc and fix the fonts in the terminal and change the wallpaper and choose a better style..but thats the fun then is it not. I posted how to for std which would likely be the same except the font. I knowtice a right click fixs the existing bar...enough said